It's not every day that most of us are shopping for or cooking clams and mussels. Perhaps you're planning on doing a Feast of the Seven Fishes or want to prepare a classic cioppino. No matter the dish ...

Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased in a shell made of two valves, or hinging parts. And that shell comes in all different sizes. There are small clams ...

There are many types of clam found all over the world ... Popular species of clam include: American hard shell clams – large clams with a thick, heavy shell Palourdes (also known as Manilla ...

Unlike some other types of seafood, a broken shell on the soft-shell clam does not necessarily mean they are no longer good ...

J. H. Salisbury, State Chemist, New York, has, in the " Plow, Loom and Anvil," presented an analysis of oyster and clam shells, to which the attention of our farmers, near our coasts, should be ...